planet with accurate descriptions rivaling those found in National Geographic."
"Elsewhere on MicroMuse, one can find an outstanding adventure based on the children's classic Narnia; a recreation of the Wizard of Oz adventure built by a gifted 8-year old; a challenging Logic Quest; and a living model of the science fiction genre `The DragonRiders of Pern' by author Anne McCaffrey."
If you would like to explore MicroMuse, you may connect as follows from your local host computer: telnet michael.ai.mit.edu [18.43.0.177] login: guest [no password required] tt [TinyTalk client program] connect guest [Connect to MicroMuse]
BBS.OIT.UNC.EDU
Telnet to BBS.OIT.UNC.EDU or 152.2.22.80. Type launch at the login message. It's a must. Not only can you read Usenet Newsfeeds, but you can use LibTel, a scripted telnet gateway to access both US and international libraries plus such things as Data Research Associates Library of Congress catalog, the Ham Radio Call Book, the National Science Foundation, the Weather Server, Webster's dictionary and thesaurus, and more.
Remote Access to Files (FTP)
FTP or File Transfer Protocol is what to use to retrieve a text file, software, or other item from a remote host. Normal practice is to ftp to the host you want and login as "anonymous". Some sites use the password "guest" while others require that you put in your network address as the password. Some popular ftp sites follow:
SUMEX-AIM
This archive at Stanford (sumex-aim.stanford.edu or 36.44.0.6) houses a plethora of Macintosh applications, utilities, graphics and sound files.
SIMTEL20
(simtel20.army.mil or 192.88.110.20) at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico contains a similar archive software for MS-DOS computers.
An FTP visit to the Network Service Center at nnsc.nsf.net (128.89.1.178) is a gold mine of documents and training materials on net use. See further information on this in the "Resources for Learning More" section of this article.
Project Gutenberg
The primary goal of Project Gutenberg is to encourage the creation and distribution of electronic text. They hope to get ten thousand titles to one hundred million users for a trillion etexts in distribution by the end of 2001.
Some of the many texts available now include Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Moby Dick, Paradise Lost and other texts in the public domain. Many of these texts are availablevia ftp:
ftp mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.201.12)
cd etext/etext92 [for 1992 releases] [etext93 is available for testing now]
cd etext/etext91 [for 1991 releases] [This file should be in it]
cd etext/articles [for Project Gutenberg articles and newsletters].
Most are also available from quake.think.com (192.31.181.1); /pub/etext,
from simtel20, and from many other sites.
For more info try Gopher as in the following section or contact:
Michael S. Hart, Director
Project Gutenberg
National Clearinghouse for Machine Readable Texts
Illinois Benedictine College
5700 College Road
Lisle, Illinois 60532-0900
INTERNET: dircompg@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
CompuServe: >INTERNET:dircompg@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Attmail: internet!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!dircompg
BITNET: HART@UIUCVMD
Travel Agents:
Archie, Gopher, Veronica, WAIS, Worldwide Web and More
There is so much information on the net, it's impossible to know
where everything is, or even how to begin looking. Fortunately,
some computerized "agents" are in development to help sort through
the massive data libraries on the net.
Archie
Peter Deutsch, of McGill's Computing Centre, describes the archie server
concept, which allows users to ask a question once yet search many
different hosts for files of interest.
"The archie service is a collection of resource discovery tools that together
provide an electronic directory service for locating information in an
Internet environment. Originally created to track the contents of
anonymous ftp archive sites, the archie service is now being expanded to
include a variety of other online directories and resource listings."
"Currently, archie tracks the contents of over 800 anonymous FTP archive
sites containing some 1,000,000 files throughout the Internet. Collectively,
these files represent well over 50 Gigabytes (50,000,000,000 bytes) of
information, with additional information being added daily. Anonymous ftp
archive sites offer software, data and other information which can be
copied and used without charge by anyone with connection to the Internet."
"The archie server automatically updates the listing information from each
site about once a month, ensuring users that the information they receive
is reasonably timely, without imposing an undue
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